A report from Op-16-FT, Washington, USA dated 1 July 1944 serial FT-49-44 described all Soviet merchant ships active in the Pacific. On 15 June 1944 were 207 Russian merchant ships with a total gross tonnage of 891,591 tons active in transpacific and coastal waters.This number included for instance 36 Liberty ships. 70% or 627,649 gross tons participated in regular transpacific traffic destinated for Siberian harbors and 95 vessels or 264.942 gross tons in the coastal waters. The 207 vessels excluded 7 icebreakers.
Gross tonnage 3,341 tons. Type freighter. Built in 1900. Speed 8.5 knots. Fuel coal. International call sign UNYB. Service Transpacific.(1)
Note
1.1Call sign UNYB. Built by Howaldtswerke, Kiel, Germany in May 1900 as Pallada for Russian Steamship Company (ROPIT), seized at Helsinki, Finland in 1918, returned to the Soviet Union and renamed Karl Liebknecht in 1922, floating workshop for repairs in 1954, broken up in mid-1960s or in 1973 still existing at Vladivostok. Gross tonnage 3,341 tons, under deck 2,952 tons, net tonnage 1,924 tons and as dimensions 346.5 x 46.2 x 24.4 feet. Normal cruising speed 8.5 knots. Homeport Odessa, Ukraine.
Source
Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. MR450(7) Sec 2 Location of Russian Ships, 1942-1945
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